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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:57:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      bwoods2@uswest.net
To:        "Gregory Neil Shapiro" <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: sendmail related changes
Message-ID:  <200010192157.e9JLvLQ13865@mail.gplsucks.org>

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Does this affect us if we are NOT useing the sendmail included with FreeBSD but we are useing a manually compiled one instead?

Bill

"Gregory Neil Shapiro" <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote ..
> The following changes have been MFC'ed from -CURRENT to -STABLE:
> 
> 1. mail.local(8) is no longer installed as a set-user-id binary.
> 
>    If you are using a /etc/mail/sendmail.cf from the default sendmail.cf
>    included with FreeBSD any time after 3.1.0, you are fine.  If you are
>    using a hand-configured sendmail.cf and mail.local for delivery, check
>    to make sure the F=S flag is set on the Mlocal line.  Those with .mc
>    files who need to add the flag can do so by adding the following line to
>    their your .mc file and regenerating the sendmail.cf file:
> 
>        MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `+S')dnl
> 
>    Note that FEATURE(`local_lmtp') already does this.
> 
> 2. The default /etc/mail/sendmail.cf disables the SMTP EXPN and VRFY
>    commands.
> 
> 3. Now using sendmail's version of vacation(1).
> 
>    This change should be transparent except for the new options/features
>    available.
> 
> 4. The sendmail cf building tools (contrib/sendmail/cf) are installed in
>    /usr/share/sendmail/cf.
> 
>    More work still to come on this.
> 
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